Jacksboro's First Railroad Depot

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Marker No: 2700

Medallion & Plate 

Texas Historic Landmark 

Geographic: ​33° 12.48′ N, 98° 9.671′ W

Location: ​639 Depot Street, Jacksboro

Marker Text: Built 1898 of native stone by Risley Brothers of Jacksboro, for the Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway, on site bought from F. F. Foscue (1819-1906), a Texas legislator, owner of Fort Richardson lands. In typical railroad architecture, the depot housed waiting rooms and offices. Mrs. Edith Wilmans, a local rancher, Texas' first (1923) woman legislator, often traveled from this station. The Rock Island system sold the structure in 1973 to Texas Export Railroad Company. (1974)